Improvement in clothes-driers



(9.19 GEORGE A. KEENE. Improvement in Cloths Drers.

No. 12H22.A f `Patenrednemm,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS KEENE, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND MARTIN C. HEALD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,722, dated December 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS KEENE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State oi' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention consists in making a clothes-drier by arranging upon knotted strings a series of rods of suitable size to constitute, when suspended, a clothes-frame; and combining two or more such frames by means of spraders suitably attached into a compact drier; in arranging, in connection with such coinposite drier, a suspending apparatus.

The drawing represents, in Figure 1, the said drier composed of three frames, when arranged t0 suspend from the ceiling or wall-brackets; and in Fig. 2, the saine frame suspended from wallsockets by aid of the spreader-s.

The bars a a c are bored at the ends and strung upon cords` b, knotted to prevent the sliding of the bars, cr clamped or fastened to them in any suitable manner. To prevent the contact of the frames thus formed spreaders d d are also attached t0 the cords, preferably so as to be readily detached, by scarfs fand g from all but one of the cords b. The upper spreader d is made so as to iit into wall-sockets h, so that the drier may either be hung from a ring, K, or suspended by the spreader d, as preferred.

The conipactness, space for drying, and lightness of this contrivance render it an important improvement in laundry furniture.

1. The arrangement of the clothes-frames a a a", hung upon cords I), and having spreaders d' and d, ot' which d is longer than (1', in combination with a suitable suspending attachment, substantially as described.

2. The arrangement of the drier, consisting oil Witnesses TEos. WM. CLARKE,

JOHN HALEY. (91) 

